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2. Spreading the Medieval Word Made Flesh

How the Franciscans used the carol to make the birth of Jesus a focus.

• 15 mins

3. From Coventry to Agincourt

Jeremy Summerly uncovers a developing professionalism in carol singing and writing.

• 15 mins

4. Carol Crisis? What Crisis?

Jeremy describes the impact of the Reformation and Puritan attitudes to music.

• 15 mins

5. The Ghosts of the West Gallery

Jeremy Summerly visits Dorchester where Thomas Hardy captured the caroling tradition.

• 15 mins

6. A Second Golden Age

By the mid-19th century, the singing of carols was once again hugely popular.

• 15 mins

7. Folk Carol Survival and Revival

How the gallery tradition, squeezed out of 19th-century church worship, refused to die.

• 15 mins

8. The Birth of Nine Lessons with Carols

Jeremy Summerly traces the familiar, traditional carol service back to Truro in 1918.

• 15 mins

9. Import and Export

How the UK began to embrace carols from all over the world.

• 15 mins

10. Ring in the New

Jeremy Summerly ponders the success of new carols over the last century.

• 15 mins